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their Reward, tho' you are unwilling they should find it out of
the same Levies they received it, long before at the Time, and
ever since the making the Act, which among other things
raises .the Twelve pence p hogshead, in the Absence of the
Lord Proprietary, towards the better maintaining the Dignity
and Station of his Lieutenant Governeur, actually inhabiting
and residing within this Province; And to such other Neces-
sary uses towards the Support and Defence of the Lord Pro-
prietary's Government of this Province, as in his Lordship's
Wisdom to him shall seem meet: But on the Contrary alledge,
that ample Provision was made, and annually raised by that
Act,' And therefore it ought not to be annually levyed by a
Poll Tax again on the People, Whereas it was never men-
tioned, or intended, or even imagined till of late by some,
that their Allowance should Come out of any Part of the
Duty raised by Vertue of that Act, whereby I give up so
great a Part of my Property as all my Quit Rents and Alien-
ation Fines are; And I hope none of my good Tenants will
Persist in thinking any longer that it ought But rather choose
to shew their Duty in their Actions, as well as expressions,
by Consenting that the Councill of State should have their
Recompence in the same manner they have long Since found
it, And not put me upon the unwilling Task of Shewing the
People of Maryland the true Value of my said Rents and
Fines, And the necessary Consequences of Advantage attend-
ing me in a just and legall Collection of them, above the
Composition, I have consented to take in Lieu of them by the
Temporary Continuance of that Act
C. Baltemore
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After which his Honour the Governeur was pleased to
make the following Speech viz.
Gentlemen.
His Lordship's Answer is so full that there remains nothing
for me to say; Yet I cannot but think our selves happy in
Coming to a right understanding in relation to the Laws, in
following the Practice of them, as they have been us'd among
us.
As to his Lordship's Revenue, as it now stands, I may
Venture to affirm, he gives up half his property; For the
quit Rents and Alienation Fines (were they to be levied in
Sterling money, according to the Tenor of the Grants) would
amount to a very great Summ; And the only Difficulty, that
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